Xerxes writes:
"A Florida woman who has been living off the grid has had her home declared 'Unsanitary' and has until March to connect her off-the-grid home to the city water system, or face eviction."
[ED Note: Ordinances such as this are not uncommon. My own father once had a property condemned on this basis while he was in the midst of a billing dispute with a utility.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by regift_of_the_gods on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:24AM
Come on, these guys do all the work and we shouldn't begrudge them a small perk like that. Besides, I usually don't mind reading them, even the ones on the other site. Then we have a byte-sized confluence of three perspectives: TFA, the submitter, and the editor.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:44AM
That's what Dice thought, too. Look how that turned out. The community does the work. The editors are there to facilitate that. Moreover, there's a well-known problem with bias related to speaking order and authority. The first person to speak, or the person speaking from a higher up position in a hierarchy, acts with undue influence on the remainder of any discussion. The Mission Management Team for Columbia thought that was a great strategy.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:22AM
Mod parent up. I already moderated, but ran out of points (hence AC), then saw this one.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:41PM
sudo mod me up